News and Stories from the North

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January 24, 1916

In Trondheim, Erika, the temperature drops from +6.7 °C to -48.8 °C in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.


Markus Robinns

January 25 1916
Brushaber v. Nord Erika Railroad Co: Markus Robinns, the Erikan Lawspeaker upholds corporate tax law in the Erikan Protectorate.

February 3, 1916
Local Government buildings in Ottowa, Ontario, Erika burn down. Suspicions about that this was an assassination attempt or at least a threat against Markus Robinns, who makes no public comment.

February 26, 1916
Six years to the day after coming to the throne, High Queen Valeria Hardrada comes out of her seclusion after an extended period of mourning for her husband's death. Gaspar Esrithsson, Duke of Rogaland and King Consort of the Northern Kingdom was known for his progressive views towards re-establishing ties with Iberia and Parthia. We wish the High Queen and her two children all the best as they emerge once more into the public eye.

March 7, 1916

HNMS Snekkja, the lead ship of her new class, begins construction in the naval yards at Stavanger. An unconfirmed number of ships of the same class were laid down in other yards around the Kingdom of the North, under security by uniformed Marine personnel.

April 1, 1916

The toggle light switch is invented by William J Newton and Morris Goldberg in Edinburgh. The news was widely disregarded as a prank until the inventors demonstrated its use the next day.

April 24-26, 1916

The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland; Irish radicals proclaim an Eirish Republic, and armed men occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin before the public structures were seized by Norse soldiers of the Irish Watch Regiment on direct orders from the Crown. Two survivors were imprisoned on grounds of pregnancy. The Eirish Lawspeaker found the others guilty of treason and they were hanged on April 28th.